The development of a Profile of Statistical Understanding is aimed at providing a tool to assist educators to identify what 'can be' expected of students rather than what 'should be'. This profile needs to cover all basic areas of statistics in such a way that specific profiles will identify what to expect of graduating secondary students with respect to 'statistical understanding' for tertiary education or the work force. Responses from 13 to 18 year-olds to open-ended questions were analyzed using the SOLO model as a framework for an hierarchy. The profile is presented and responses from typical students are discussed to elaborate on the categories. Rasch analysis combined the rankings of students on different questions to produce a measure of statistical understanding for each student. A profile for an average student is discussed
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education